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France. At the same time I have tried to avoid a merely country- by- country treat-
ment, and to set forth a chronological narrative of events on the wider stage of
Western Civilization. It is hoped that this broader view will be apparent, not only
in Chapters XVI, XXVI, and XXXII, where it is most explicitly aimed at, but also
in the way in which more geographically localized chapters are put into relation to
each other.
My obligations are numerous. I am indebted to younger colleagues, who, as as-
sistants, have read for me in languages that I do not know: Messrs. Jeffry Kaplow
and William Blackwell in Russian, Peter Kenez in Hungarian, Andre Michalski in
Polish, and H. A. Barton in Swedish. I wish I had been able to make better use, in
a fuller treatment of Latin America, of the help given me by my friends, Professor
and Mrs. Stanley J. Stein, in Spanish and Portuguese. For permission to reproduce,
with adaptations, the contents of three articles of which I am the author, I am in-
debted to the editors of the Journal of Modern History, French Historical Studies, and
the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Mrs. Louis Gantz of Princeton
has done most of the typing, Professor Stanley E. Howard of Princeton has as-
sisted with the proofs, and Mrs. Leon Gottfried of St. Louis has prepared the
index.
For the freedom given in the use of my own time I should like to thank the
Rockefeller Foundation, which has generously supported this volume as it did its
predecessor. Without the Princeton University Library, in which most of the re-
search was done, the book would probably never have been written. As so often in
the past, I am under a great obligation to the officers and staff of the Princeton
University Press, and notably to its Director, Mr. Herbert S. Bailey, Jr., and its
Managing Editor, Miss Miriam Brokaw. Most of all, most lastingly and most
deeply, I am indebted to Princeton University itself, which over a period of many
years made possible the conditions for the writing of this and other books. In par-
ticular, I must gladly acknowledge the aid received from the Council of the Hu-
manities at Princeton, and from the Benjamin D. Shreve Fellowship awarded by
the Department of History there.
For all such help I express my thanks, the more feelingly since I am no longer at
Princeton, and have now completed a work that has occupied me, with interrup-
tions, for fourteen years. Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit!
R. R. PALMER
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
ST. LOUIS, MO.
MAY 1964